LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "What's Not To Love About (Joan)?" Edition
JUST TO KICK THINGS OFF:
Calling All Ladypreneurs, 2014
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Attention: Ladypreneurs (and any Manpreneurs) who may be amongst us today:
It is with great alacrity that I present you with the much-delayed and aforementioned "What's Not To Love About?" issue. As expressed by its handy acronym, WNTLA is a weekly feature of The LZ Sunday Paper that deviates from the strict definition of "news" in the categories of business, digital, fashion, or whatever else. The pieces are simply meant to elicit delight and/or, in their best incarnation a literal LOL, OMG, or WTF.
Once again, it was tough to turn away from collating the week's most important news. We surely would have dived deeply into the Ladypalooza Pond of stolen nudie cel-ebrity-pix. The many-faceted media dialogue goes something like:
a) "This is stealing. Whatever the subject matter of the pictures, it's that person's property and this is 100% wrong."
b) "Okay, but why do they have them on their phone? Everyone knows that everything is hackable. 'Privacy' is a pipe dream."
c) "But why take them in the first place? Why do they need to take naked pictures of themselves?"
d) That quickly turned toward a more nefarious "she/they deserved it" reaction that equated the taking and storing of the pictures to the "don't wear short skirts if you don't want trouble" argument.
After sorting through those 20,500,491 search results, I've determined that the most essential argument has led back around to
e) "Why are pictures of women susceptible to excoriation, manipulation or humiliation and pictures of men, in whatever state of disrobed or robed state, are just plain no- big-deal, 99% of the time?"
Here's where I come down:
a) agree
b) agree
c) I am firmly in the camp of a person's right to have shenanigans-oriented photos on any device one would like to shenanigan-ize.
d) If I left my wallet on the passenger seat of my car on the street, and walked away, I'd want to be able to prosecute the person who stole it because it was a theft. As risky, naive, inexplicable, or downright stupid as leaving my wallet on the seat might be viewed, I bet most people would agree that taking it would still be illegal. Hopefully, lots of Sunday Paper readers would actually seek to return that wallet to its rightful owner, contents fully intact.
e) I dunno.
Guess what? I just checked-- my wallet is safely in my bag, and mercifully for the eyeballs' sake of hackers and law-abiding citizens alike, I don't have any naked pictures of myself on my phone! In fact, out of the 456 pix on my phone, the closest thing I have to porn is this picture, which, while not *technically* sexy, could be used for a very high-concept marketing campaign for "50 Shades of Grey."
One reason that the loss of Joan Rivers was so keenly felt, this week, was that she probably would have had the best joke of all for the nudie-pic-phone-hacking/theft scandal. For sure, right?
She was a great, original talent. This is my favorite interview with Joan, from 2012. It is very powerful. In it, she calls it ('it' being sexism) as she, and many of us, sees it.
Another thing she says is, "Ignore aging: Comedy is the one place it doesn’t matter. It matters in singing because the voice goes. It matters certainly in acting because you’re no longer the sexpot. But in comedy, if you can tell a joke, they will gather around your deathbed. If you’re funny, you’re funny. Isn’t that wonderful?"
Next week, The LZSundayPaper will get back to what it is here to do: expose and recirculate news about, and very frequently by women in business, media, and culture. But this week, in the maelstrom of back to school and work routines, I deem it WNTLASunday. It's especially fitting to have a laugh, LOL, OMG, or WTF in honor of Joan.
Don't forget to send us interesting stuff you think we may have missed, and share stuff you like everywhere you possibly can--but don't send us any pictures you've stolen or spread any illegal things around. And tell people you think will enjoy it to sign up at LZSundayPaper@gmail.com.
Many of the articles I would have included in this edition we tweeted out all during the week! You can read/see them if you follow it/me/us @LZSundayPaper.
Enjoy!
LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
Joan Rivers On The Carol Burnett Show: 1974 via Wifey
No News Is Fun News! WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT All Of It:
Bondi Hipsters Parody Miranda Kerr's Saucy GQ Photo Shoot via Lost In A-Minor
Watch Tina Fey & Rachel Dratch's Outrageous Two-Woman Show From 1999 via Rolling Stone
Women Modeling Fur Coats On EBay via Jezebel
Gender-Neutral Bathrooms: Solving The Sign Problem via The Society Pages
Play Video Game 'Tampon Run' To Vanquish Enemies And Make Menstruation Less Of A Taboo via Bustle
Pinterest Accidentally Congratulates Single Women On Getting Married via New York Mag
Ask A Mortician: What Happens To Breast Implants When You're Creamated? via Jezebel
The Ping-Pong Theory Of Tech Sexism via Matter via Medium
Husband Became Part of a Maternity Photo Shoot After His Wife Refused via Lost In A-Minor
Female Photographer Imagines Her Life With Dozens Of Different Partners In 'Self Portraits With Men' via Feature Shoot
Lisa Frank Is Real via The Atlantic
These Pregnancy Photos Are So Awkward It'll Make Your Water Break via Jezebel
Woman Recites 'All The Single Ladies' As A Monologue And It's Perfect via Elite Daily
This Woman Took A Self-Portrait Every Year In Just Her Birthday Suit via Slate
Bloodfeast Recipe: "My Uterus Is Listening To The Cramps Mac & Cheese" via Flavorwire
Why I Posed Naked In Brooklyn To Replicate Madonna's Iconic Photo via Huffington Post
The Unforgettable Fashion Of Seinfeld's Elaine Benes via Time
Rare Vintage Photos Of Big-City Burlesque Beauties Of The 1950's via Flavorwire
This Is What A 14-Year Old Boy Dreams Of via New York Magazine
12 Photos Of Men Who Hate Shopping via Business Insider
These 100-Year-Old Best Friends Share Their Thoughts On Today's Pop Culture via Huffington Post
Watch Five Women See Their Vaginas For The First Time via Gawker
AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:
Harriet The Spy: Icon Of Subversion via Hazlitt
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